AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
TO PRESENT AWARDS TO DISTINGUISHED SOCIOLOGISTS

Washington, DC –
The American Sociological Association (ASA) is pleased to announce the
winners of the ASA Awards for 2003. The awards will be presented in a
ceremony at the Association’s Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on
Sunday, August 17th at 4:30 p.m. The Awards Ceremony will immediately
precede the formal address of ASA President William T. Bielby,
University of California-Santa Barbara. The awards are the highest
honor that the Association confers. Selections are made by committees
directly appointed by the ASA Council. The ASA award winners for 2003
are:

This
annual award honors a scholar who has shown outstanding commitment to
the profession of sociology and whose cumulative work has contributed
in important ways to the advancement of the discipline. The body of
lifetime work may include theoretical and/or methodological
contributions, particularly work that substantially reorients the field
in general or a particular subfield.

Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award: Richard Lachmann (State University of New York-Albany) for his book, Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2000)

This
annual award is given for a single book or monograph published in the
three preceding calendar years. The winner of this award gives the
Sorokin Lecture at a meeting of a regional or state sociological
association.

Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award: Michael Burawoy (University of California-Berkeley) and Robert Hauser (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

This
award is given annually to honor outstanding contributions to the
undergraduate and/or graduate teaching and learning of sociology which
improve the quality of teaching. The award may recognize either a
career contribution or a specific product.

Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology: Lewis Yablonsky (California State University-Northridge)

This
annual award honors outstanding contributions to sociological practice.
The award may recognize work that has facilitated or served as a model
for the work of others, work that has significantly advanced the
utility of one or more specialty areas in sociology and, by so doing,
has elevated the professional status or public image of the field as
whole, or work that has been honored or widely recognized outside the
discipline for its significant impacts, particularly in advancing human
welfare.

Jessie Bernard Award: Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (CUNY-Graduate Center)

The
Jessie Bernard Award is given annually in recognition of scholarly work
that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role
of women in society. The contribution may be in empirical research,
theory, or methodology. It may be for an exceptional single work,
several pieces of work, or significant cumulative work done throughout
a professional career.

This
annual award honors the intellectual traditions of W.E.B. DuBois,
Charles S. Johnson, and E. Franklin Frazier. The award is given for
either a lifetime of research, teaching, and service to the community,
or to an academic institution for its work in assisting the development
of scholarly efforts in this tradition.

Dissertation Award: Devah Pager (Northwestern University) for her dissertation, The Mark of a Criminal Record (University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD, 2002)

The
Dissertation Award honors the best PhD dissertation for a calendar year
from among those submitted by advisors and mentors in the discipline.
The Dissertation Award for 2003 is awarded for the best dissertation
defended during calendar year 2002.

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About the American Sociological AssociationThe American Sociological Association (www.asanet.org),
founded in 1905, is a non-profit membership association dedicated to
serving sociologists in their work, advancing sociology as a science
and profession, and promoting the contributions to and use of sociology by society.